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Benjamin West

Alexander's Confidence with his Physician Philip

c. 1770
Brush and brown and black wash, with tan gouache, heightened with white gouache, with incising, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
21.8 × 30 cm (8.6 × 11.8 in)

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